The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ride far that day, so that it happened that when Tarzan
returned there were guests still at breakfast.
As his casual glance wandered into the officers' dining-
room, Tarzan saw something which brought a look of interest
to his eyes. Lieutenant Gernois was sitting there, and as
Tarzan looked a white-robed Arab approached and, bending,
whispered a few words into the lieutenant's ear. Then he
passed on out of the building through another door.
In itself the thing was nothing, but as the man had stooped
to speak to the officer, Tarzan had caught sight of something
which the accidental parting of the man's burnoose had
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